ASA 101 Exam #Questions with correct answers
Aback - ✔✔Of a sail, when the wind is on the "wrong" side
Abaft - ✔✔Toward the stern, as in "abaft the beam"
Abeam - ✔✔Off the boat at right angles to its center line
Aft - ✔✔Toward the stern or behind the boat
After - ✔✔Toward the stern
Aground - ✔✔When the hull or keel is touching the bottom
Aid to navigation - ✔✔A buoy or other device deployed to mark a channel, a
navigational feature, or a hazard
Aloft - ✔✔Above the deck, usually in the rig
Amidships - ✔✔At or toward the middle of the boat
Anchor - ✔✔A device lowered to the bottom while secured to the boat to hold
the boat stationary
,Apparent wind - ✔✔The combination of true wind and the wind effect of motion
as felt aboard a moving boat
Astern - ✔✔behind the stern
Athwartships - ✔✔Across the boat from side to side
Backing - ✔✔the act of setting a sail a back
Backstay - ✔✔a wire that runs from the top of the mast to the stern
Backwinding - ✔✔similar to backing
Ballast - ✔✔weight placed low in the boat to give it stability
Batten - ✔✔a slat inserted in the leech of a sail to support the sailcloth
Batten pocket - ✔✔a pocket sewn into the sail to hold a batten
Beacon - ✔✔an aid to navigation that's fixed in place
beam (1) - ✔✔the width of a boat at its widest point
beam (2) - ✔✔the region of the boat's sides halfway between bow and Stern
, beam reach - ✔✔the point of sail where the wind is abeam of the boat
bear away - ✔✔to turn the boat away from the wind, fall off
beat, beating - ✔✔to sail to windward close-hauled
bend - ✔✔a knot used to tie a line to another line or object
bend on - ✔✔to attach, as a sail to a spar
blanketed - ✔✔hidden from the wind, as when one sail is blanketed by another
block - ✔✔a pulley
boathook - ✔✔a pole with a hook on one end usedul for snagging a line or a ring
bolt rope - ✔✔a rope sewm into the edge of a sail, often used to attach it to the
mast or boom
bottom - ✔✔the seabed or bed under any body of water
boom - ✔✔the spar that supports the for of the mainsail
Aback - ✔✔Of a sail, when the wind is on the "wrong" side
Abaft - ✔✔Toward the stern, as in "abaft the beam"
Abeam - ✔✔Off the boat at right angles to its center line
Aft - ✔✔Toward the stern or behind the boat
After - ✔✔Toward the stern
Aground - ✔✔When the hull or keel is touching the bottom
Aid to navigation - ✔✔A buoy or other device deployed to mark a channel, a
navigational feature, or a hazard
Aloft - ✔✔Above the deck, usually in the rig
Amidships - ✔✔At or toward the middle of the boat
Anchor - ✔✔A device lowered to the bottom while secured to the boat to hold
the boat stationary
,Apparent wind - ✔✔The combination of true wind and the wind effect of motion
as felt aboard a moving boat
Astern - ✔✔behind the stern
Athwartships - ✔✔Across the boat from side to side
Backing - ✔✔the act of setting a sail a back
Backstay - ✔✔a wire that runs from the top of the mast to the stern
Backwinding - ✔✔similar to backing
Ballast - ✔✔weight placed low in the boat to give it stability
Batten - ✔✔a slat inserted in the leech of a sail to support the sailcloth
Batten pocket - ✔✔a pocket sewn into the sail to hold a batten
Beacon - ✔✔an aid to navigation that's fixed in place
beam (1) - ✔✔the width of a boat at its widest point
beam (2) - ✔✔the region of the boat's sides halfway between bow and Stern
, beam reach - ✔✔the point of sail where the wind is abeam of the boat
bear away - ✔✔to turn the boat away from the wind, fall off
beat, beating - ✔✔to sail to windward close-hauled
bend - ✔✔a knot used to tie a line to another line or object
bend on - ✔✔to attach, as a sail to a spar
blanketed - ✔✔hidden from the wind, as when one sail is blanketed by another
block - ✔✔a pulley
boathook - ✔✔a pole with a hook on one end usedul for snagging a line or a ring
bolt rope - ✔✔a rope sewm into the edge of a sail, often used to attach it to the
mast or boom
bottom - ✔✔the seabed or bed under any body of water
boom - ✔✔the spar that supports the for of the mainsail
